Question

How do you simplify `6(2p - m) - 3m - 12p`?

Answer 1

`-9m`

Explanation:

We can start by distributing the `6` to the terms in the parenthesis. Here, we are just multiplying. We get:

`12p-6m-3m-12p`

We can combine our like terms to get:

`cancel(12p)-9mcancel(-12p)`

`=>-9m`